Twister on Tuesday by: Mary Pope Osborne

1. Twister on Tuesdayby: Mary Pope Osborne

2. Chapter OneTuesday! • prairie • old-fashioned • pioneers • adventure

3. adventure • Going somewhere you have never gone before.

4. old-fashioned • From the past; not from this time.

5. prairie • Wide open area, grassland

6. pioneers • People from the past who travelled West to find new land.

7. Chapter TwoSigns of Life • suspenders • billowed • research • rippling • group • sun-bonnet

8. suspenders • An elastic material attached to pants to hold them up. Used in place of a belt.

9. sun-bonnet • A hat that was used to protect your face and eyes from the sun.

10. billowed • To wave or bend in the wind.

11. rippling • Bending or moving.

12. research • To look up information

13. group • Group of trees.

14. Chapter ThreeOne-Room Schoolhouse • storm cellar • rusty • dugout • sod bricks

15. rusty • Metal that got exposed to water and is now turning a different color.

16. sod bricks • Bricks made from pieces of the ground.

17. dugout • An area of land that is dug out of the earth.

18. storm cellar • The bottom room or basement of a building. It is used for safety during a storm.

19. Chapter FourReading Lesson • muttered • peered • barrel • crate • McGuffey Reader

20. peered • Look out of something.

21. crate • A box used for storage.

22. barrel • A large wooded container used to hold some type of liquid.

23. Mc Guffey Reader • A reading book from the past filled with different types of stories.

24. muttered • To not speak clearly.

25. Chapter FiveBully • bully • burlap • hovered

26. hovered • To hang over something.

27. burlap • A material that has tiny holes.

28. bully • Someone who hurts or teases people.

29. Chapter SixGrasshopper Attack! • grasshopper • succeed • hailstones • slate

30. slate • A small piece of chalkboard that students used to use instead of paper.

31. succeed • To do well at something.

32. grasshopper • A bug that can hop and is green.

33. hailstones • Something that forms during a storm and is made up of water and ice.

34. Chapter SevenTwister! • deafening • funnel • whirling • roaring • budge

35. funnel • A circle at the top and gets smaller at the bottom. The shape of a tornado.

36. whirling • When the wind is spinning and twirling.

37. roaring • Loud sound made by animals or things.

38. deafening • A sound that is so loud it can make you feel like you are deaf.

39. budge • To move something.

40. Chapter EightGet Below! • fiercely • overturned

41. overturned • To turn something over.

42. fiercely • Strongly and with a lot of power.

43. Chapter NineAll Clear • vanished • scowled • destruction • reckon

44. destruction • Damage caused as the result of a storm.

45. vanished • disappear

46. scowled • A dirty look someone makes when they are angry.

47. reckon • When you think something is going to happen; you are not sure.

48. Chapter TenThe Third Writing • nightmare • recoup

49. recoup • To make new again, save what is left over.

50. nightmare • A terrible or bad dream.